Humbug Quote by Henrik Ibsen Download Open image “If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.” — Henrik Ibsen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Humbug Ifs Inspirational Lying Whole Writing
You find yourself writing the truth, because it's like, 'Well, I ain't writing for anyone but myself anyway.' — Walker Hayes Copy Share Image
Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
It's the bane of my life and my existence, people telling me to be a little more succinct with what I write. — Ben Howard Copy Share Image
I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I read a quote to the effect that we are always writing about ourselves no matter what we're doing. That may be so. — Emil Ferris Copy Share Image
When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If you write, write about what you do and who you are, and you can't be wrong. Don't lie about anything. You are very… — Carl Reiner Copy Share Image
Why wouldn't you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself? It's far more interesting to write about others. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
What's to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
“To be oneself on a basis of gold is no better than founding one’s house on the sand. For your watch, and your ring,… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that.… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
It is not for a care-free existence I am fighting, but for the possibility of devoting myself to the task which I believe and… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
“Nora: It's true Torvald. When I lived at home with Papa, he used to tell me his opinion about everything, and so I had… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
But I almost think we are all of us ghosts. It is not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
How can you see something that isn't there?" yawned the Humbug, who wasn't fully awake yet. "Sometimes, it's much simpler than seeing things that… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
The man is a humbug — a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world. He has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The humorist has a good eye for the humbug; he does not always recognize the saint. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Christmas a humbug, uncle!" said Scrooge's nephew. "You don't mean that, I am sure?" "I do," said Scrooge. "Merry Christmas! What right have you… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Sensitive, humbug. Everybody thinks I'm sensitive. Wait until they hear my new album. — Carole King Copy Share Image
It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war, and not a game ... If there were… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“We must have humbug, we all like humbug, we couldn't get on without humbug.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
[You write out of the] desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, etc., etc., etc. It is humbug… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs. — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live more musically — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I am prepared to maintain that Honesty is essentially an anarchistic and disintegrating force in society, that communities are held together and the progress… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
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